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Andrew and Todd.com. I got an email back, I think, in January, February, it said, Charlie,

do you want to read a book that Nassim Taleb recommends? Like, of course, I love everything he's authored, including The Black Swan. And so book gets sent to me. I get hundreds of books sent to me, hundreds. And for whatever reason, I was drawn to this book by the recommendation. And so that, I'll give this one a whirl as a Friday night. The book is called Soul in the Game, The Art of a Meaningful Life. And I was like, I really like the way this is written.

This author really knows how to capture your attention, his syntax, his diction was excellent. He just kept reading and reading and reading. And it was incredibly deep. Finish the whole thing. I said, I want to have this guy on the show. And there's tons of lessons there, There are tons of things that I really want to talk about and explore, including stoicism, which we're going to get to later in the hour.

But joining us now as the author of the book, I might mispronounce the name. I apologize if I do. Vatali Katz the Nelson.

Welcome to the program. You got it. It's perfect. No, it's perfect.

Okay. Well, welcome to the program. Congratulations on a very readable and fulfilling and deep book. From your perspective, tell us why you wrote this book, and I have several items I want to explore with you. So please.

Yeah. Well, you know, actually, I tell you this, the dedication of this book is to my kids because you don't read my emails.

And I think that probably sums it up.

I just, I wanted to, I write this article about investing about, you know, many fun topics.

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